Health & Science

Applications to the Well City Challenge will be accepted Oct. 26 through Nov. 20.

In a study published Wednesday, the CDC and Vermont health officials found that multiple short exposures to people confirmed to have COVID-19 led to transmission of the virus.

When storms intensify and flooding increases, it takes a toll on the banks of our region’s creeks and streams. Are WHYY readers and listeners right to be worried?

A social worker and a disaster expert describe the things Philly can do to recover from coronavirus and heal the injustices revealed by the pandemic.

On learning the news, the governor left a Camden County press conference about jobs, saying he needed to get away to be tested.

When a Latina woman went to the hospital, a doctor dismissed her COVID symptoms. Is unconscious bias one reason people of color are disproportionately affected by the virus?

More hospitalized patients are surviving than early in the pandemic. Improved treatments help, but so does flattening the curve to keep hospitals from overfilling.

We discuss how the U.S. pandemic response get derailed and ways to stay safe and sane this winter as Covid rates rise.

On an 8-hour Emirates flight, with mask-wearing enforced, a whopping 27 COVID-positive people boarded the plane in Dubai. Guess how many passengers got infected?

Both Metcalfe and Mastriano have been vocal critics of the Wolf administration’s handling of the pandemic.

Sussex County is averaging about 40 new cases per day, that’s more than double the rate at the start of October when the county averaged just 15 new cases.

3,538 University Park students have tested positive, according to Penn State's dashboard update Tuesday.

Clean up is underway from an oil spill that has migrated from Broadkill, to Plum Beach Island, the Roosevelt Inlet and Lewes.

The Cumberland County cat is one of just a handful of pets across the country known to have died or been euthanized following COVID-19 infection.

Mental health advocates say the move will bring mental health crisis response into the 21st century.